published semi-anually for BSC alumni and friends alumni Spring 2015 association Editors, Madeleine Loh, BSC Development Director Kashmir Kravitz, Lothlorien Resident Designer, Lydia Tuan, Cloyne Court Resident Cooperatively Yours

Executive Director Kim Benson Pays Respects to Founding Members

DAVIS HOUSE gets ready for a REUNION

MONG THE architectural the room and board houses at that beauties of Southside, time, Davis House did not rely on A behind International House, prepared food from Central Kitchen. lies a pathway of brick steps lined “When we moved in as the first with lush foliage that leads to the group students, we were required Julia Morgan house now known as to help clean up. The house had Davis House. been vacant for over a year. We felt Julia Morgan originally designed privileged to live in a Julia Morgan, Davis House in 1913 as the Richard and took great pride in making the Clark house, for the son of William house clean and beautiful,” says XECUTIVE DIRECTOR Randolph Hearst’s attorney. During Carleton MacDonald, who later Kim Benson and Madeleine E Loh enjoyed tea and the 1920s, the house became the became President of the BSC. Alpha Xi Delta sorority until it After 35 years, Davis House is conversation about family history closed in the 1960s. gearing up for a big reunion in with founding member Edward G. In 1969, the Berkeley Student Fall 2015. Due to its small size and McGrath at his home in Carmichael, Cooperative purchased the relatively new status as a co-op, the CA. Ed is a tenth generation establishment for $75,000 and Davis House alumni base is smaller descendant of the Spanish Valencia opened Davis House in January than the alumni base of houses like family which settled in Mexico and 1970. Davis House started as a co- Oxford Hall or Cloyne Court. The California. op for only juniors, seniors, and alumni contact list is further limited Ed graduated in 1940 from UC graduate students. Unique among because records of house lists prior to (CONTINUED on page 5) Former Davis House Manager Maritza Polanco, former BSC Melissa Mersy Tu and Allen Tu met at Davis House. Students and alumni on the Davis House roof patio at a reunion organized by George Soohoo. The Davis President and Davis House alum Omar Shakill, and Madeleine House residents greeted alumni with scones, iced tea and smiles. Loh in Puerto Rico with Maritza’s brother. 1990 were destroyed. However, the BSC is October 10-11, 2015 slowly reconstructing house lists and alumni SAVE THE DATE DAVIS HOUSE REUNION contacts with the help long while. I just wanted to know of volunteers. how they were doing and have fun Despite the limited alumni data, with them. I would advise people to Davis House alumni involvement keep their connections when they with the BSC remains strong. George leave school.” Soohoo, one of the first residents of In the meantime, official reunion Davis House organized a reunion on planning is beginning among a circle February 21, 2015. Twelve of the first of alumni including George Soohoo, residents of Davis House visited their Joy (Brooks Molina) Castillo, Ivy old home, where they were warmly Moya, Mario Wilson, Robert received by current residents and Cheng, Lucia Haet, Maha Haji and managers with scones, iced tea, and others. BSC Development Director smiles. The alumni were grateful for Madeleine Loh is only too happy to the hospitality and enjoyed reliving encourage reunion planning as she old memories with the students. “It lived in Davis House from 1993-96. was very generous of the students Madeleine attended a house council to spend time with us,” says David meeting, where twenty students Fariello. The visit to Davis House unanimously decided to host the was followed by a potluck lunch at event, and she is also recruiting the home of Harriett Ann Goldman. graduating seniors Raphael Bernabe, The success of the reunion Workshift Manager, and Nick was due in large part to George’s Herson, House President, to the independent efforts to track down reunion committee. Madeleine will and connect with his old housemates. continue to coordinate with the “I felt a need to reconnect with old Davis House managers and residents friends that I hadn’t seen in such a as preparations begin in earnest. 2 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 Students and alumni on the Davis House roof patio at a reunion organized by George Soohoo. The Davis House residents greeted alumni with scones, iced tea and smiles. October 10-11, 2015 DAVIS HOUSE REUNION

Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 3 Meet the BSC Staff MANDY SHAPIRO (RIGHT) Mandy balances the house checking account with Sherman Hall house manager Elise Levin-Guracar. (BELOW) Mandy with her husband at CZ.

VERY SEMESTER IS A better for the planet and really all managers and contain both a E huge change for the Berkeley awesome for meeting people and summary and detailed report of house Student Cooperative: students move making friends. I also really think it expenses and account information. out, house manager teams change was really great for learning how to The managers use these reports to and house culture transforms. Each take care of myself,” Mandy said. provide financial transparency to house has a new set of students Mandy also met her husband their communities. Mandy says that who choose to spend money on Austin Shapirio, a math teacher, at there is still room for improvement, different food, furniture, and other CZ. including incorporation into amenities than the semester before. She resided in CZ until 2004 manager training and facilitation of Therefore, every semester presents a when she transferred from Berkeley manager transitions. new mass of bills and finances that City College to UC Davis, where Mandy says another major part BSC Accounts Payable Bookkeeper she lived in their cooperative living of her job is educating house and Mandy (Combest) Shapiro balances. community called The Domes. finance managers. Most students As the Accounts Payable Mandy then moved to live in the who come into house and finance Bookkeeper, Mandy pays house and Inter-Cooperative Council in Ann manager positions were high school central level bills on time, tracks and Arbor, MI; there, she started a students only a few years ago and reports house finances, and handles temporary 10-hour-a-week position have little to no experience managing reimbursements. as an accounting filer. Her job finances for a small community. Mandy is also an alumna of Casa later broadened to include more Mandy trains these students in all Zimbabwe. She moved into CZ as a accounting responsibilities and aspects of financial oversight: she student in Berkeley City College in eventually led her back to Berkeley. teaches them how to understand 2002 after another resident moved “I never would have thought to decentralization reports, how to out and she got in from the waitlist. pursue accounting as a career choice, determine house account balances, She accepted the offer, sight unseen. so I’m grateful to the co-ops for explains the reimbursement process, She grew up in a small town in hiring people with no experience,” and clarifies how the different house Ohio, had no experience with group Mandy said. budgets function. living and had never heard of a co- In 2011, Mandy began her “Educating students is part of any op before she moved in. Despite her position as the Accounts Payable job at the BSC,” Mandy said. “I limited knowledge of cooperative Bookkeeper for the BSC. During really love working with students. living, Mandy said that, after some her time here, Mandy has improved It’s cool to know that I’m helping initial apprehension, she “fell in the “decentralization reports” to a a movement that really did make it love” with CZ. simpler design. The decentralization possible for me to go to college.” “Living cooperatively is cheaper, reports are sent out bi-weekly to

4 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 BSC Celebrates 100th Birthday of Founding Member

GROUP PHOTO (left to right, from top): Gideon Anders, Bill Blythe, Gretchen Taylor Lira, Omar Shakill, Richard T. Lira, Kim Benson, Spencer Hitchcock, Bonnie Blythe, Robert Warren Jones, Li Chu, Theresa Yuen, Arthur Walenta, Madeleine Loh, Bishop Richard Millard, Haven Thompson, Pasteur S. T. Yuen

(ABOVE) Kim Benson shakes Bishop Millard’s hand at his birthday party.

(CONTINUED from front page) Berkeley with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history. He later had a distinguished teaching and research career at Syracuse University, Oregon State, and Sacramento State. Ed believed he is the oldest surviving Co-oper until he was pleasantly surprised to learn that his old housemate at Barrington Hall, Richard Millard, is still around and, at age 100, older by three years!

Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 5 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 5 Hoyt Hall in thePhotos 1950s from Dolores W. Powell

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Group at Tea House Mother 44 42 43 45

Dolores Powell, Linda Dolores Powell Bush, Joan Colman Dolores Powell & Oron & Carol Bell

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Group with House Mother

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Can you identify the people in any of these photos?

6 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 a part of the student housing to my son who lives in Berkeley, ALUMNI NOTES cooperative here. Even though I and my impression was not good. It Dolores Warren Powell (Hoyt won’t be able to attend Bay Area seemed so rundown, and the yard in 1956-1958). events in the near future, the values the courtyard was a disgrace. For the My workshifts were dusting and of the BSC have stayed close to me four years I lived there, my five hours cleaning the living room, dish duty, and will continue to as I navigate per week were spent as a gardener. and occasional work in the kitchen. this new city. I’ll be modeling after There was a magnificent rose garden My room was on the second level, your tactfully worded emails as Syd south of the jutted out living room facing the street. Our curfew was Burke and I attempt to establish and many other trees and shrubs 7:30 p.m., unless we went to the our alumni network in Michigan and plantings. It is thrilling to see library—in which case curfew was as well. Hope all is well, and have a the restoration of this great building. 10:00. I had a roommate named wonderful weekend! Congratulations! Carol who liked to go out at night. Cooperatively yours, Some of the Apt. 2 guys were We had an arrangement where I Janet Hsiao (Sherman Hall 2011- Peter Mihalovici and his cousin Jack would go into the kitchen at night 2012, Rochdale Village 2012-2013). Mihalovici, Ute Runewalder, and Edward Isazay Paola and other names to make coffee, and she’d knock on FROM: the kitchen window for me to let her I’ve forgotten—oh, yes Bernard in through the back door. I wish I A Co-op couple! Silverman. could remember our house mother’s After two years, Peter Mihalovici name! She was a sweet lady, but our and I moved to the second floor social interactions were limited to My dad lived at Cloyne as a 50 Apt. with a deck all around that dinner time. student in the 50s. My husband was over the living room—great We were required by the campus and I met at Stebbins…. apartment. Erinco Rossi shared it administration to wear skirts and Thank you! with us and later Bob Dannielson dresses and could only wear pants Karen Suzukamo (Hoyt for as landscape architect. Both Peter on campus on Saturday. Hoyt was two quarters, Stebbins for rest of and Jack have died. Enrico practiced subjected to the great “Pantie Raid” freshman year, then sophmore and Dentistry in Hayward for years. The of May 1956. The front doors of junior years, and finally Rochdale only one I am still in close touch with Hoyt Hall and Kappa Kappa Gamma for senior year.) is Nardy Silverman, an engineer, were removed, but there was no who invented the computerized cash inside damage at Hoyt. Of course, I’m the husband. I transferred register. He and his wife Janice live the newspapers told a different story. up to Berkeley in the fall of ’78 as in Missoula, Montana near their I studied social science and a junior from the housing co-op at son Paul, who is a professor at the English. My education in East Los UCLA and moved into Stebbins, University of Montana. Angeles schools prepared me well where Karen was the house manager After graduating in English in for college. I attended Garfield High that year. She was literally the first 1950, I went to “Holy Hill” to Pacific School, the school that was later person I met in Berkeley when I School of Religion to prepare for made famous in the movie Stand checked in. We did not like one ministry. I graduated in 1953 with a and Deliver. Unfortunately, many another—a great start, yes? At least B.D. and was ordained that May into of my classmates from small farm we didn’t for a couple quarters. The Congregational Church, where towns were not as well-prepared We moved to Rochdale in the fall I served parishes until my retirement and did not have the necessary of ’79 into separate apartments and in 1997. My last parish was First studying skills, and many of them graduated in the spring of ’80. Congregational Church UCC in dropped out of UC Berkeley. After Sincerely, Boulder, where I still live; I served graduating, I had a long career in the Leslie Suzukamo that church for 27 years. Los Angeles Unified School District: In 1957, I married Jeanette Desin, first as a teacher, then as a school who was born in San Francisco psychologist. I haven’t been back to Dear Madeleine, and schooled in Berkeley. She Hoyt since I graduated, but I’d like Several years ago you encouraged taught school in Albany while I was to visit. me to write something as an alumnus, in Seminary. We produced four but I didn’t get around to do it until children: three boys and then a girl. now. In 1946, I graduated from Analy I have five grandchildren and one I just attended NASCO Institute Union High School in Sebastopol great grandson, Bryce, who was born in Ann Arbor and ran into my and came down to Cal that fall. I in March. I now live in a retirement Rochdale roommate (Joanna moved into Cloyne Court in Apt. 2 complex in Boulder. Marrufo, currently at Fenwick)! I and lived there until graduation in Now that I’ve told you far more started a MSc program in Fisheries June of 1950. Your recent newsletter than you needed to know, thanks and Wildlife at Michigan State about “Cloyne Court Reimagined” again for the “good news” about University in East Lansing and am greatly warmed my heart. I’ve visited Cloyne Court. Cloyne on two or three of my visits Bruce Mackenzie Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 7 DIVERSITY & INCLUSION TASK FORCE Alumnus Jon Lampman (Barrington Hall 1967-1968 & Cloyne Court 1968-1969) discusses role as alumni advisor. This alumnus is a “good fit” with students.

(LEFT) Jon Lampman (left) with friend Omar Shakill (Davis House, 1994-95; Northside 1995-96) in Hawaii. (RIGHT) Ed Stinson and the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force present recommendations to the BSC Board of Directors.

HE BSC BOARD OF opportunity to low income students. (EOP) eligible students. Directors consists of We just completed the first Phase two (spring semester) T representatives elected by phase of work, which included the includes a detailed examination their peers. In recent years, the following: of BSC policies and priorities to Board has formed task forces to determine who is admitted to one focus on mission critical issues. One • Examining other organizations of the coops. The final phase will of these task forces is the Diversity that have a higher success rate of include specific recommendations to and Inclusion Committee, which serving low-income students. the BSC Board. addresses the discovery from the • Identifying student groups I was flattered that the students 2012 census survey that a startlingly which are largely coextensive with considered me a regular member, low proportion of our room and low-income students. gave me specific research projects board members come from the • Conducting outreach to the and found some of my comments populations the BSC was formed to UC Berkeley Division of Equity and questions challenging. I was serve: those for whom an educational & Inclusion (which includes the very impressed with the motivation, opportunity is a financial struggle. Educational Opportunity Program expertise and commitment to task The BSC Executive Director Kim and the Disabled Students Program) completion shown by students on Benson asked me to serve as an • Conducting a census survey of the task force. alumni advisor to this task force. BSC membership Ed Stinson, the student task force leader met me for lunch and both Members of the task force assisted of us agreed that serving on the task the BSC in the 2014 census by visiting force would be a good fit. At the individual houses and meeting with first meeting Ed Stinson reiterated house managers and residents. The the BSC mission statement and task force also met with the U.C. everyone agreed that a major premise Division of Equity and Inclusion is that the BSC is failing to meet its to learn how the BSC can recruit mission to provide an educational Education Opportunity Program

8 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 2012 vs. 2014 Results of the Latest BSC Census Show Progress Pell Grant Recipients

N 2012, THE BSC CONDUCTED ITS FIRST 44% comprehensive demographic survey with the I help of demographics doctoral student Catherine Barry (Convent). In 2014, Catherine ran the second 42% survey as an alumna-volunteer. The BSC will continue to track its performance in meeting its mission and hopes to see continuing improvements in years to 2012 2014 come. Federal Pell Grants are given to lowest-income students. At UC Berkeley, 36% of undergraduates are Pell Grant recipients. Our mission is to provide a quality, low-cost, cooperative housing community to university First-Generation College Students students, thereby providing an educational opportunity for students who might not otherwise be 46% able to afford a university education. 41%

2012 2014 At UC Berkeley, 27% of undergraduates are first- generation college students. Registered with UC Berkeley Educational Opportunity Program 37.00% 35% 35.00%

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31.00% 29.00% 27% Catherine’s significant contributions were celebrated 27.00% at a happy hour for BSC alumni in Redwood City in 25.00% February 2015. We presented her with a certificate 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 which reads: The UC Berkeley Educational Opportunity Program provides resources to first-generation and low-income students. Thank you CATHERINE N. BARRY, Ph.D., Demography and Sociology and alumna of the Berkeley Student Upper Middle Class & Wealthy Cooperative, for volunteer work conducting the 2014 BSC Census, a project critical to meeting our mission. — Kim Benson, BSC Executive Director. 29%

27% Catherine holds a Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology, and works at The U.S. Department of 2012 2014 Veterans Affairs. At UC Berkeley, upper middle class and wealthy students are 31% of the undergraduate population.

Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 9 SCHOLARSHIPS Thanks to the generosity of our alumni, the BSC enjoys a scholarship fund totaling over $1.2 million. We are especially grateful for the recent gift of $228,000 from the estate of William J. and Florrie M. Milligan (Stebbins Hall). Our scholarships help the BSC meet its mission to provide affordable housing to students who need it. In Fall 2014, we distributed over $65,000 to 37 students.

Dear Mr. McGrath, Thank you so much for contributing to the BSC. I’ve been awarded a scholarship to live in the BSC, which will make my spring fnancial situation signifcantly less stressful. I come from a long line of co-opers, starting with my mother and father who both lived in Barrington Hall during the 80s. My aunt lived in Cloyne at the same time and, 25 years later, my brother lived in Casa Zimbabwe. And now, I live in Oscar Wilde house. I have lived here since Spring 2014 and since then I have met the most incredible people who I am proud to call my best friends. On my frst day here, the house was flthy after a month of winter break and a bad fall semester. Consequently, when someone tried to cook something, a grease fre started. Another housemate sprayed a powder extinguisher on it and there was chemical dust all over the stove. The person who started the fre fed the scene, so this guy (also a newbie) and I spent two hours cleaning the stove. That guy instantly became my best friend and ever since we, along with our other friends, have continued to enrich the cooperative spirit and take care of our space together. Cooperativity is beautiful and there is little I enjoy doing and feel more accomplished doing than caring for the space we share together. Currently, I attend Berkeley City College; so it is especially wonder ful to have “the college experience” while attending CC. In my time here, I served as Health Worker over the summer and I am currently the Alumni Coordinator for the BSC. I am extremely grateful for my position because I am learning vaulable ofce skills and establishing important relationships with BSC staf. I am beyond thankful to become an adult in a space that strives to teach and allows me to learn. Despite my aforementioned love for Wilde, I will be moving to Lothlorien in the Spring and I can’t wait to build relationships and cooperate in a new space. Thank you so much, Kashmir Kravitz

SAVE THE DATE December 10, 2015 SCHOLARSHIP RECEPTION Our frst reception for scholarship recipients in December 2014, held at the Faculty Club, was such a success that we already booked the same room for next year.

10 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 The Berkeley Student Cooperative and the BSC Alumni Association thank the following donors for their fnancial support in 2014. The BSC uses donations and membership dues for seismic renovations, IT upgrades, scholarships, and programs that engage our alumni in strengthening and supporting the BSC. We extend a special thank you to the Thank you! lifetime members of the BSC Alumni Association.

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Engstrom • Christopher Jacobs • Diane Mathios • Tedi Siminowsky • Bradley Andrews • Harold Erdley • Arvind Jain • Susan Moss McCall • Peter Simmons • Rae Archibald • Robert Erlich • Edward H. Jefery • Anne Berenice R. McDevitt • Stanley R. Smith • Jane Partridge Ardley • Candi Estrada • Jerald R. Jimenez • Michael McGinley • Lindsay Soh • Linda Artel • Robert D. Evans • Carl S. Johnson • Richard P. McGinnis • Suzon Solomon Kornblum • Michele Asch • Vincent Fausone • Russell D. Johnson, Jr. • Richard S. McIntosh • Valerie E. Sopher • Jason Auriemma • Mara Levine Faust • Susan Jorgensen • Katrina Lillian McLaughlin • Ruth Spear • Rachael Balyeat • Robert Feinerman • Warren Jue • Robert Mercer • Lisa Spivak • Greg Barnes • Peter Fern • Kathy Sue Bissell Justus • George Richard Millard • Katherine M. Staufer • Patricia A. Barron • Ainslee Fessenden • Bruce Kane • Zana Miller • Phillip M. Stewart • Joel Steven Beam • Leslie Fiedler • Richard Kaufmann • Reed E. Miller • Maria Stratton • Roberta Bednar • Margaret Hannah Fiske • Bruce Kemmell • Richard C. Millet • Tom Sutak • Iris Bendahan • Bernard J. Flanagan • Trisha O’Connor Kett • Florrie Martin Milligan • John H. Sutter • Suzanne Louise Bender • Christina Flores • Ross Kilburn • Wilhelmina Monson • Karen Suzukamo • Leonard Benson • Hayward Fong • Henry M. King • Kathleen Moody • Ray W. Swanson • Carol A. Bequette • Benjamin Fong • Fred Klaessig • Chinsook Kim Moore • Marilyn Noda Swartz • Joanne Berkowitz • Bruce M. Foreman • Victor Klebanof • Robert Morgan • Ernest Takahashi • Oren Berkowitz • Cary Fox • Robert Kleinberg • Richard Moyer • Dave Tamayo • Vivian Fox Berliner • Donald Frank • Elizabeth Koller • Ashish Mukharji • Daniel Tamsky • Judy Bertelsen • Harry Frank • Kevin Koster • Michelle Nacouzi • Irving Tang • Richard Bierce • Samuel William French • Harry J. Krueper • Alice Nakahata • Paul M. Templin • William R. Blythe • Roy Friedland • Alex Kudlick • Gene Neri • Edward Thelen • Catherine Irene Boggs • Andrew M. Friedland • Shrinivas R. Kulkarni • Horton E. Newsom • Alana Theriault & Chuck • Calton Bolick • Milton Fujii • Nancy Kull • Josephine Y. W. Ng Desmarais • Laurie Bonilla • Isao Fujimoto • Louis Kurkjian • Carol Davis Norberg • Donna Thompson • Mitchell I. Bonner • William F. Garber • Tom Kuykendall • Keith Nordman • David Timmons • Norman Bookstein • Victor Garlin • Cynthia La Croix • Margaret M. O’Driscoll • Nora Traughber • Clara Bosak-Schroeder • Avery Nelson Gilbert • Jonathan Lampman • Sylvia Oey • Franklin Tseng • Naoual Boukricha • Noelle A. Gillies • Michael Lapp • Harold G. Olson • Vlad Tsyrklevich • Richard Brann • Sharlya Gold • Maureen Larrowe Jordan • Scott David Oppenheim • Howard G. Tucker • David Brown • Marian Gold • Carl Larson • Vicki S. Oppenheim • Alfred Twu • Martin Brown • Elliot Goldstein • Peter Larson • George T. Osner • Ray Underberg • Connie M. Canacari • George Gorbatenko • Ronald M. Lathrop • Dana Parnes • Arthur J. Ungar • Ray Cervantez • Steve Greenberg • Niels C. Laughlin • Janice Partansky • Steven Wagner • Don Chakerian • Morris L. Greenfeld • Stephanie Lee • Dorothy Partridge • Benjamin Wald • Stewart E. Chang • David Grossberg • Alex Lemberg • Reed Pendleton • Arthur & Sue W. Walenta, SAVE THE DATE • Dave Cheit • Jonathan Grossman • Mark Lewis • Juan Xavier Perrone Jr. • Gong Cheng • Elmer R. Grossman • Chi-Sharn Lim • Lynn Porcedda • Dorothy Walker • T. Z. Chu • Margie Guillory • Dorothy Lindheim • Dolores Warren Powell • Jon Wallace December 10, • Thomas Joseph Clark • Bruce P. Hall • Diana Lingafelter • Daniel Price • Eileen Green Webb • Ladd Coates • Randolph W. Hall • Peter Linquiti • Joshua Prudent • Alice Webber • Barbara Jones Coates • Peter Hall • Richard Lira & Gretchen • Kurt Pyle • Priscilla Spires Wegars • Alvin P. Cohen • William Joseph Hall Taylor • Lee Quintana • Nancy Weintraub 2015 • Katherine Collins • Tim Hallahan • Alan Lloyd • Norbert Ralph • Katherine Westphal • Richard Cook • Nick Hamilton • Diana Lobush • Richard L. Ramont • Richard J. Wilcox • Susan Currie • Lois Hansen • Jody S. London • Palmina Rende • Asher B. Wilson • Gene Curtis • Fred Hartmann • Elisabeth Long • Rebecca Renzas • Scott P. Wilson • Karen Czapanskiiy • Lorraine Fradkin Hauser • Linda Lustig • Bonnie Ricca • Burton Wolfman SCHOLARSHIP • Allen Davenport • Mary Haven Thompson • Christine Lux-Whiting • David Richardson • Stephen R. Wood • Maria Monika Decker • Scott Hayes • Carleton J. MacDonald • Sheldon Richman • Philip Woods RECEPTION • Carlos Delherra • Richard Heimann • Robert P. MacDonald • Bonnie Rife • Michele Woods Jones • Harry Delmer • John Heins • Michael W. Mace • Lois Schulman Rifkin • Mary Woolsey • Klara Detrano • Jennifer Heller • Margie Machado • Justine Turner Roberts • Chauncey Yano • Mike DeVito • Gordon Herscher • Linda Macioci • Yona Roberts Golding • Pak Yan Yuen • Jay L. Devore • George P. Hess • Matthew Madison • James C. Rosa • Peter Yuen • Meghna Dholakia • Beth Hoenninger • Robert K. Mah • Gail I. Rubman • Pasteur Yuen

Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 11 From the Archives!

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I lived in Cloyne Court during the summer of 1968. I Picture # 33 in the Spring 2014 Newsletter identified believe I am in a photo that was posted in the Spring one of the people as Greg “Yogi” Plant. That sure 2014 and Fall 2014 newsletters—the photo labeled #34. I brings back memories, for Greg was then a friend of am in the top right corner of the photo, sitting on a couch, mine. We nicknamed him “Yogi” because he resembled hands folded. This would only be the case, if the photo Yogi Berra—he in fact preferred that nickname to the was taken in 1968. (This is fun!) one he had before, which was Egg Plant, a take-off on - MYRNA COZEN his name. But this note is more than my nostalgia: it is to update the information. The caption says he was there “probably earlier too,” which he certainly was. I was at Cloyne Court 1961-1965 and that is when and where I knew him. (BTW: based on what I read in the Newsletters, Cloyne Court, which I Ieft in 1965, is very, very different now.) - ERIC HYMAN

37 The meeting is a presentation of the Ridge House social committee (Freshman Craig Johnston on left and Junior Dennis Mires, chair on right) at either the annual House Meeting or at a Council Meeting for the proposed social schedule for Spring 1965. On the bottom row, we see the back of the heads of 36 house council members Bruce Kemmel, grad student In the Fall issue of Cooperatively Yours, photo #36 on page 5 and boarder Price Stiffler, and Wade Hudson. The might just be of yours truly. When I saw it, I immediately thought, second entry for March is for Rock n Roll Beer Bust. ‘Hey, that’s me!’ The hair’s right (for that time anyway), the facial I cannot make out the rest of the list. shape, the glasses, the arms, the watch, even the slim figure. I - RICHARD LIRA don’t remember that shirt, and have zero memory of that event or that photo. But I lived at Cloyne from Fall 1970 until—I don’t remember. A year, at least, before getting an apartment. - DAVID J. MILLER

12 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 AL BENDICH In Memoriam

by Victor Garlin BSC Alumni Association Board member, Oxford Hall (1952-1957)

The New York Times front page of January 14, 2015 Al was counsel in other significant civil liberties cases. contains an obituary for my longtime friend and BSC He reinstated tenure and back-pay for a San Francisco alumnus Albert Bendich, celebrated constitutional City College professor who had been fired for refusing attorney and scholar and entertainment producer, who to discuss his political beliefs and associations before a has died at 85. Al lived at Barrington Hall in 1949 after legislative “investigating” committee. He successfully transferring to UC Berkeley from community college. sued Alameda County which had fired a welfare worker He was generous supporter of the BSC and its mission for refusing to take part in early morning raids on the of housing low-income students. homes of welfare recipients (the purpose of which was After graduating from Boalt School of Law in 1955, to search for “unauthorized” residents, as women were Al became staff attorney at the required to be unpartnered to Northern California American receive welfare benefits). As Civil Liberties Union, alongside a faculty member in the UC Lawrence Speiser, who at that Berkeley Speech Department, time was also the the Alumni he supported the Free Speech Representative on the BSC Movement, and taught a highly Board of Directors. political generation the theory In 1957, the San Francisco and practice of free speech. police arrested City Lights Al was born in the Bronx to publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti working-class, politically-active on obscenity charges for Russian-Jewish immigrants. publishing the now iconic Allen His father was a presser in the Ginsberg’s “Howl,” a poem clothing industry who moved his of social criticism that was family to Los Angeles when Al sprinkled with four-letter words. Pamela and Al Bendich, with Mike Miller, attending the 80th was about to enter community Anniversary Gala of the Berkeley Student Cooperative. Al’s legal memorandum to trial college. At Barrington Hall, he judge Clayton Horn, a volunteer Sunday School teacher, no doubt found many kindred spirits: Co-opers steeled was decisive. Judge Horn found that Howl’s “redeeming by depression-era childhoods, wartime military service, social importance” merited protection under the First or racially discriminatory experiences, including wartime Amendment and acquitted Ferlinghetti. Authors like internment of Japanese-Americans. D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Anias Nin, some of Fellow BSC alumnus Michael E. Tigar, himself a whose works could only be had in the United States in distinguished constitutional advocate, was a student of smuggled European editions, were now freely published Al’s. Hearing of Al’s death, he wrote in his blog, “no by Grove Press and other American publishers. words can convey the full measure of this challenging, In 1962, the San Francisco police arrested comedian engaging, brilliant, compassionate man. My thoughts are Lenny Bruce for using during a performance the ten-letter with his family today.” vernacular for a person engaged in fellatio. When the I echo these sentiments as do some of Al’s arresting officer admitted under Al’s cross-examination contemporaries who shared his days in the Berkeley that the offending word was heard often in the police Student Co-operative: Leon Litwak, James Fairley, and station, which had been defined by the trial judge as a Zoe Borkowski. public place, Bruce was quickly acquitted by the jury. Lenny Bruce later persuaded Saul Zaentz, who had purchased what was then a small record company, Fantasy Records, to hire Al as his lawyer. The rest is entertainment history: the success of the rock group Credence Clearwater Revival, and the production of the films One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest, Amadeus, and The Two years out of law school, Al Bendich wrote the court brief that successfully defended the English Patient. publication of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl in an obscenity case. Al later defended Lenny Bruce in another obscenity case.

Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 13 BSC Legacy Society Member LOIS HANSEN OIS HANSEN GREW UP IN the outer Mission LDistrict and attended Lowell High School in San Francisco before studying science and lab technology at UC Berkeley. After college she became a head medical technician at Alta Bates and later became a bacteriologist. She has named the Berkeley Student Cooperative in her estate plans because she has a great fondness for her time in Stebbins Hall and firmly believes it made a big difference in her life. She provided the following recollections: I shall always credit my years at Stebbins for making me less of a loner and more of a groupie. As an only child, I never shared a room with anyone else. Having a roommate was a complete change in lifestyle. It worked out very well. I was very fortunate and Esther Ruby and I got along very well. I later had a different kind of experience with another roommate, but that’s just part of the cooperative experience.I made bag lunches for my workshift. I noticed that many of the bag lunches were left untouched as the Co-op students preferred to eat elsewhere. I thought that was ridiculously wasteful, so I talked to the Central Kitchen chef about improving the lunches. He gave me full access to the Central Kitchen pantry. My lunches became so popular that instead of working the 5 hours per week slated for bag lunch preparation, I was working 6-10 hours each week! My mother came with me once to Central Kitchen. The chef understood her very well and immediately put her to work preparing mashed potatoes, which we did directly on a table against the wall. I fondly remember him telling her to “smash-a da potatoes and push-a’dem against the wall.” She did as she was ordered. They had similar backgrounds and had a friendly time with each other. Lois passed away shortly after providing this statement. We are grateful that we had an opportunity to meet her.

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14 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 supported many Bay IN MEMORIAM Area organizations. Johnston was a DAVID FRADKIN was born generous supporter of the on April 20, 1931 and died on Berkeley Student Cooperative July 23, 2014. He lived at Cloyne and a member of the Alumni Court from 1948-1951 and was Association for many years. very active editing the paper. His son, Craig Johnston, Fradkin was a physics professor lived in Ridge House from at Wayne State University in 1965 to 1968 and briefly in Detroit, MI for 33 years. His Kidd Hall. field was theoretical physics and elementary particles. He had many publications in the RENEE SCHNEIDER Journal of Mathematical Physics JUDD passed in August 2014. and Paritical Dynamics. Upon I have known Renee since I retirement, he moved to was a volunteer for the BSC, Portland Oregon. about seven years ago. When He was a true Renaissance I decided to work for the BSC, man, possessing a keen Renee was very supportive. She interest and knowledge about would check in periodically and everything that interested ask me how things were going him. He wrote poetry and was (“Are you being a good girl?”). I deeply interested in music. last saw her about three months He travelled widely and was before she passed. Although she the family historian. David is had been transferred to assisted survived by his wife Dorothea, living, she was still spunky. their three sons, and three I will miss Renee. grandchildren. - Madeleine Loh - Lorraine Hauser (David’s sister) Please accept the enclosed check in memory of my Barrington alumnus J. late husband, MING SANG RICHARD JOHNSTON DAVID NG, who passed away passed away September 6 at the peacefully on April 27, 2013. age of 99 after a short illness. He went to our back room at Johnston was born April home around 5 a.m., returned 22, 1915 in Los Angeles and to bed, fainted, and never remained there until graduating regained consciousness. He was from UCLA in 1936. After 88 years old. Our doctor told us college, Johnston attended my husband would live to 92. Boalt Law School and lived Life is so unpredictable! During in Barrington Hall from 1936 our 52 years of marriage, my to 1939. Richard married his husband told me his fond long-time sweetheart Elizabeth memories of his co-op days at Schaal in 1939 and had three Berkeley. He took me to visit children: Roger, Craig, and there twice. His brothers and Deborah. After being sent to three nephews also graduated Honolulu to work as a lawyer from UC Berkeley. I’m sorry for the Foreign Funds Control for being unable to send my Office, Richard joined the donation sooner since I’m still Navy until the end of World mourning the sudden passing War II in 1945. He then of my husband. returned to the Bay Area to Best regards, Josephine practice and teach law, and he

Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 15 Cloyne Alumni Celebrate VALENTINE’S DAY

RIGHT: Rick Kent, Rick Spector, and Bob Reyes. Rick Kent provided these photos. BOTTOM: c. 1968. Bob Reyes was taking care of his friends even as a student. He cooked Mexican food on the weekends and the guys enjoyed late night feasts in the kitchen.

n February 14, 2015, Bob Reyes margaritas for the guests. One of the O and his partner Jeff hosted their highlights of the evening was when Rick fifth annual party for Cloyne friends Kent showed off his photo albums of life in Oakland. Bob lived in Cloyne from in Cloyne and Stebbins Hall, where he was 1966-70, and has stayed in touch with his among the first group of men to move into housemates ever since. “These are really in 1971. great people. We were a little rough around This year, Bob’s guests included the the edges when we were students, but all BSC Development Director Madeleine essentially good, decent guys. At the time, Loh and Executive Director Kim Benson, I don’t think we knew how important we who happily answered questions about were to one another, but I’m glad that the transformation of Cloyne into the those experiences turned into truly lifelong substance-free Academic Theme House. friendships. I’m really happy to be able to “I was honored to be included, and I’m do this every year.” pleased to see that the Co-op experience Old Clones traveled from as far away was deeply meaningful to so many alumni,” as Alaska and North Carolina. In the says Kim. “We will continue to encourage tradition of Bob’s reunions, Bob and and support these kinds of gatherings in Jeff cooked Mexican food and mixed whatever way we can. Thank you Bob!”

16 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 CLOYNE COURT FACTS The BSC leases Cloyne Court from UC Berkeley. All Cloyne Court residents are UC Berkeley students. The substance-free policy at Cloyne means that all controlled substances, LIVINGA SUBSTANCE-FREE, @ CLOYNE ACADEMIC THEME HOUSECOURT including alcohol and tobacco, may not be consumed or stored on the property. A NEW, VIBRANT COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY IS BORN! The substance-free policy is worth it. I love coming home to a clean, peaceful Dear UC Berkeley Friends of the BSC, home. There is still a lot of activity and In March 2014, the student-run Board of Directors of the BSC socializing, but no loud, crazy parties. voted to transform Cloyne Court into our substance-free - Bobby Yano, Cloyne Court Academic Theme House. The decision followed over 20 hours of Academic Theme Manager Board debate, numerous committee meetings and informal discussions. RESIDENT STATISTICS • Fall 2014: 100 residents We closed Cloyne in Summer 2014 to prepare for the new • Spring 2015: 120 residents theme, and reopened for the Fall 2014 semester. Cloyne has • Fall 2015: planned maximum been a huge success beyond all of our expectations. You can feel capacity of 140 residents the energy, joy, and engagement of the students when you walk in. • 33% UC Berkeley Educational Cloyne members prepare the Opportunity Program participants basement for a new hackerspace. • 50% Women, 50% Men • 23% Cloyne residents transferred I invite you to visit us, take a tour of Cloyne and from other BSC houses. The rest learn more about the BSC. are new BSC members. Cooperatively, ABOUT THE BSC Kim Benson, BSC Executive Director • 20 properties • 1,300 students • Established in 1933 with 14 students RESIDENTS ORGANIZE ACTIVITIES TO FEED INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY • 43% of our students are in the UC Berkeley Educational Opportunity Inspired by professors, fellow students, and Ueno, a composer who explores “sonic Program the joy of learning, Cloyne residents are flling events,” performed a vocal composition. the Cloyne calendar with academic-themed They then felded questions about their The mission of the Berkeley Student activities. Here is a sampling: artistic processes, the role of universities in Cooperative is to provide a quality, supporting artists, and more. Día de los Muertos, Oct. 28, 2014 low-cost, cooperative housing One of the residents presented on the Soldering Workshop, Aug. 27, 2014 community to university students, history and political signifcance of Día de The house invited hackerspace pioneer Mitch thereby providing an educational los Muertos. The house discussed indigenous Altman to teach them how to solder pre- opportunity for students who might resistance and learned how to make calaveras programmed electrical kits. The event began not otherwise be able to afford a and altars. at 3 pm, and by 10 pm, solderers had micro- university education. burns on their fngertips and buzzing electric Cloyne Hackerspace, ongoing energy. Students are creating a workshop in the Cloyne Court basement for projects, creativity, and interdisciplinary learning, with an emphasis on STEM subjects. BSC members and Cloyne residents have been meeting every week to discuss next steps and brainstorm project ideas. Evening with Professors Robert Hass & Ken Ueno, Oct. 22, 2014 Check out Cloyne’s new website at cloyne.org, created by After having dinner with the house, Professor Cloyne residents! Robert Hass, former US Poet Laureate, read recent works, and Professor Ken Professors Ken Ueno and Robert Hass

CooperativelyCooperatively Yours Yours SpringSpring 2015 17 LOTHLORIEN 40th Anniversary Reunion OTHLORIEN is celebrating its 40th year! The Berkeley Student Cooperative purchased the property in 1975 from the One World Family Commune. Alfred Twu and other elves have been busily planning a full L weekend for old elves and their partners and families. Registration is being handled by the Facebook event “Loth Reunion 2015.”

Alternatively, contact BSC Development Director Madeleine Loh at [email protected] or (510) 649-8984.

LOTHLORIEN April 3-5, 2015 40th Anniversary 2405 & 2415 Prospect St. REUNION Berkeley, CA 94704

LOTHLORIEN REUNION SCHEDULE FRIDAY, APRIL 3 - Afternoon hike to old initiation tree/art activities/kombucha - Help out with pizza starting around 4 p.m. making - 7 p.m. Regular Pizza dinner + potluck (bring food, otherwise there - 7 p.m. “Welcome Workshop” with dinner to go over consent, wont be enough) community agreements - 7 p.m. “Welcome Workshop” with dinner to go over consent, - 9 p.m. Low-key party in North House Living Room community agreements, bylaws, etc - Regular quiet hours start at 1 a.m. - 9 p.m. Song and story night / band night in NHLR (BYOB event) SUNDAY, APRIL 5 - Regular quiet hours start at 1 a.m. - AM garden party / Home Improvement party - AM yoga SATURDAY, APRIL 4 - 12 p.m. Brunch and cleanup party / Intensive Kitchen Clean - AM garden party / Home Improvement party afterwards - 12 p.m. Brunch + learn about the BSC Alumni Association. If you - Event ends around 4 p.m., for those who want to keep partying, are arriving Saturday, please bring a potluck item. there’ll be groups going to Freehouse or other bars.

18 Cooperatively Yours Spring 2015 Donate to the BSC! The BSC is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible.

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Seismic Retrofit Fund At a gathering in Redwood City, we presented TZ Chu (Ridge House) with a cowboy Scholarship Fund construction hat signed by student leaders to thank him for his signifcant donation to seismic retrofts, our greatest need. Where It Is Needed Most

Online options: Donate at www.bsc.coop/donate or Join the Alumni Association! Pay membership dues at www.bscaa.org. The BSCAA is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible. My check, payable to BSC, is enclosed. Please charge my Visa/Mastercard. Lifetime Membership Card No. Exp. Date $500 Lifetime Membership $600 with spouse Signature Date $250 Recent Grad Lifetime Membership Name $300 with spouse Address Annual Membership $50 Annual Membership Phone

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EVENTS bscaa.org/events NAME THE BSC AS A BENEFICIARY! Lothlorien Reunion No attorney needed! Friday, Sunday April 3-5, 2015 IRA - Savings account Checking account - Insurance policy BSC Graduation îVolunteers Needed! Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 6-9 pm Berkeley Student Cooperative, a Davis House Reunion California nonprofit Saturday & Sunday, October 10-11, 2015 Tax Identification Number: 94-0948140 BSC Scholarship Reception December 10, 2015

Contact Madeleine Loh at [email protected] or (510) 649-8984 for information.

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